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Representing HBCUs: Spike Lee’s “School Daze” at 30

March 23, 2018March 26, 2018 Lavelle Porter Black cinema, Black film, blackness, education, Resistance, white supremacy

On the night of February 11, 2018, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) hosted two sold out screenings for the

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The Pursuit of Happiness: A New Book on Black Women’s Travels Abroad

March 2, 2018March 5, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, black politics, Black women, blackness, Jamaica, travel

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Film Blackness, Hollywood Whiteness

March 2, 2018March 3, 2018 Justin Gomer Black cinema, Black film, blackness, racism, white supremacy

“What if black film could be something other than embodied? What if black film was immaterial and bodiless? What if

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Dismantling Whiteness as the Beauty Standard

December 9, 2017December 14, 2017 Sasha Turner African Diaspora, Black women, blackness, Colorism, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

Miss Jamaica Davina Bennett rejected Eurocentric beauty ideals when she sported her afro at this year’s Miss Universe Pageant. Bennett had

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The Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

October 16, 2017October 21, 2017 Alyssa Collins black feminism, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, intersectionality, law, religion, sexuality

In today’s post, Alyssa Collins, PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, interviews Rosalind Rosenberg

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